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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

A camera that snaps a GIF and ejects a cartridge that displays it

1480

2

Criticizing Google got me fired

1010

3

Insane state of today's advertising part 3

961

4

The art of over-engineering your side projects

869

5

Headless mode in Firefox

817

6

Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant

793

7

Disabling Intel ME 11 via undocumented mode

734

8

24/192 Music Downloads Are Very Silly Indeed (2012)

647

9

Yes, Google Uses Its Power to Quash Ideas It Doesn’t Like

605

10

604

Top Ask HN

1

What books have made the biggest impact on your mental models?

692

2

What maths are critical to pursuing ML/AI?

628

3

Who is hiring? (September 2017)

573

4

What are your favourite developer blogs?

302

5

Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell

292

6

How did you get started in Network Security/Penetration Testing?

185

7

How does Facebook know what I buy on Amazon or vice versa?

178

8

6-figure freelancers of HN, what do you do?

126

9

Do you do any mentoring outside of work?

113

10

What are some good sources of climate data to analyze?

108

Top Show HN

1

Kubernetes as a back-end for OpenFaaS

194

2

Make Medium Readable Again

193

3

Bitcoin investing using Dollar Cost Averaging strategy

170

4

A neural net that critiques your logo

152

5

Getting started with Puppeteer and Chrome Headless for Web Scraping

142

6

Pest – Fast parser generator written in Rust

108

7

An API to provision custom hostnames with SSL

90

8

Freezetab – What browser bookmarks should've been

55

9

HardyPress, zero-maintenance, “static” Wordpress hosting service

41

10

React-hint – 150LoC Tooltip Component for React, Preact and Inferno

37

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Yes, Google Uses Its Power to Quash Ideas It Doesn’t Like

605

2

Toyota Research Institute head says full autonomous driving is “not even close”

295

3

WhatsApp Cofounder on How It Reached 1.3B Users Without Losing Its Focus

295

4

Man Who Refused to Decrypt Hard Drives Still in Prison After Two Years

251

5

One of the most complex wristwatches ever made

195

6

Today is the last chance to comment on the proposal to kill net neutrality

172

7

How NASA Kept the ISS Flying While Harvey Hit Mission Control

162

8

Facebook says Pages that regularly share false news won’t be able to buy ads

151

9

German students win hyperloop competition, reaching 200 mph

148

10

SanDisk crams 400GB into a microSD card

139

News [?]

1

Criticizing Google got me fired

1010

2

Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant

793

3

ESPN Football Analyst Walks Away, Disturbed by Brain Trauma on Field

436

4

Juicero Is Shutting Down

415

5

Houston is experiencing its third ‘500-year’ flood in 3 years

349

6

Astronomers have found the stars responsible for an explosion recorded in 1437

285

7

Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber (2000)

264

8

Burger King launches WhopperCoin crypto-cash in Russia

225

9

KIA Dealership in Canada remotely disables car over $200 fee

225

10

We Need to Nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon

219

Scientific publications [?]

1

Blum: “The proof is wrong. I shall elaborate precisely what the mistake is.”

258

2

Impact of breast milk on IQ, brain size and white matter development (2010)

169

3

'Snowdrift' game tops 'Prisoner's Dilemma' in explaining cooperation (2007)

163

4

A Game of Life on Penrose Tilings

138

5

Brain foods: the effects of nutrients on brain function (2008)

132

6

LangPro: Natural Language Theorem Prover

122

7

Katherine Johnson Biography

120

8

Is Romantic Desire Predictable? Machine Learning Applied to Initial Attraction

118

9

Electrons flowing like liquid in graphene start a new wave of physics

98

10

Ancient whales were predators not gentle giants

92

Dev Blogs [?]

1

ARCore: Augmented reality at Android scale

393

2

The FCC.gov Website Lets You Upload Malware Using Its Own Public API Key

324

3

Reducing Python's startup time

219

4

Supporting Hypothesis

199

5

The Huge Premium Intel Is Charging for Skylake Xeons

170

6

Redesigning Python's named tuples

165

7

Twitter Bots Use Likes, RTs for Intimidation

125

8

SIDH in Go for quantum-resistant TLS 1.3

107

9

AMD Threadripper 1950X Linux Benchmarks

84

10

LuaTeX Comes of Age

81

Tech blogs [?]

1

Internet Censorship Bill Could Spell Disaster for Speech and Innovation

235

2

Lu Ban's axe and working with your Chinese suppliers

203

3

Intel Announces Movidius Myriad X VPU, Featuring ‘Neural Compute Engine’

125

4

iOS 11 Dock and Gesture Controls to Replace 'iPhone 8' Home Button Entirely

30

5

Former Apple Employee: Touch Bar Shouldn't Be Forced on High End Users

26

6

Judge Cracks Down on LinkedIn’s Shameful Abuse of Computer Break-In Law

7

7

Intel Launches Xeon-W CPUs for Workstations: Skylake-SP and ECC for LGA2066

4

8

Innovative Police Transparency Measure Dies in California

4

9

Stupid Patent of the Month: JP Morgan Patents Interapp Permissions

4

10

Lu Ban's Axe and working with your Chinese suppliers

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple Special Event (Sept 2017)

71

2

Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs for Windows

53

3

VMware Cloud on AWS – Now Available

6

4

Application Load Balancing via IP Address to AWS and On-Premises Resources

4

5

AWS Hot Startups – August 2017

4

6

Swords and Shields – A Study of Mobile Game Hacks and Existing Defenses [pdf]

3

7

Amazon slashes Music Unlimited subscriptions for students

3

8

AWS finally adds descriptions for security group rules

3

9

2

10

VMware Cloud on AWS

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Where will artificial general intelligence come from?

389

2

Kim Dotcom Spying Operation Was Illegal, NZ High Court Rules

226

3

214

4

Increasing numbers of wingsuit jumpers are dying (2016)

152

5

Canada's 'Great Trail' Is Finally Connected

107

6

Uber’s New CEO

8

7

A Tesla Model S hits 300,000 miles in just 2 years

6

8

The Dutch have become an agricultural giant by showing the future of farming

5

9

Putting Metaclasses to Work

4

10

Why Hiring for Cultural Fit Can Thwart Your Diversity Efforts

4

Science News [?]

1

US government halts study on health effects of coal mining

266

2

Increased acidity found in schizophrenia and bipolar patients’ brains

130

3

Doubts raised about CRISPR gene-editing study in human embryos

48

4

Insect eyes inspire new solar cell design

40

5

Experiments Show How Neanderthals Made the First Glue

33

6

Higher coffee consumption associated with lower risk of early death

14

7

Crystals like you’ve never seen them before: they’re flexible

8

8

MDMA granted “breakthrough therapy” status by FDA to treat PTSD

6

9

US energy agency asked scientists to scrub references to climate change

6

10

How 12,000 tonnes of dumped orange peel grew into a landscape nobody expected

4

Social [?]

1

Berlin Is Becoming a Sponge City [video]

214

2

How Differential Steering Works (1937) [video]

145

3

The truth about toilet swirl (2015) [video]

102

4

An update on the state of the Reddit repositories

98

5

Multiple CoC Violations by Node.js Board Member Ashley Williams

61

6

Predictably Fast Clojure (2014) [video]

61

7

Lego railway and through a house and garden [video]

60

8

The Death and Life of Helicopter Commuting [video]

58

9

AMD ThreadRipper 1950X can compile the entire Linux kernel in 36 seconds

41

10

“An on-page advert was mining bitcoin in my browser”

29

Github repos and gists [?]

1

My wonderful world of macOS

402

2

An MNIST-like fashion product dataset

220

3

Introducing .NET IL Linker

192

4

Roamer: A Plain-Text File Manager

174

5

Nanocoin – A minimal cryptocurrency implemented in Haskell

171

6

TensorFlow Tutorial and Examples for beginners

156

7

Bootstrapping Kubernetes Google Cloud Platform without scripts

153

8

A curated list of things related to Vue.js

141

9

Honey SQL – SQL as Clojure data structures

118

10

Rust – Coroutines support merged

111

Wikipedia [?]

1

FE-Schrift: forgery-impeding typeface

227

2

58

3

18

4

Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy

11

5

9

6

North American Numbering Plan Expansion

9

7

5

8

Paradox of tolerance

4

9

ADS amphibious rifle

4

10

3

Blogs [?]

1

How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2017

310

2

It’s Okay to “Forget” What You Read

275

3

Bad UX: How Booking.com deceives clients

263

4

When an experiment with existing technology does a “good enough” job

223

5

How I failed to replicate an $86M project in 1 line of code

150

6

Why we moved from Angular 2 to Vue.js and why we didn’t choose React

138

7

Rayton Solar: Legitimate Investment or Scam?

104

8

From Burn-Out Entrepreneur to Automating My $4M Company

90

9

Facebook’s GraphQL spec doesn’t grant a patent license

88

10

Keylogging on IPhone and Android Using Gyroscope Data and Machine Learning

85

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What is a memory leak in Android Programming?

2

2

Search and Replace with incremented values in Vim

2

3

Can a local variable's memory be accessed outside its scope?

2

4

Toggle a Boolean in JS

1

5

Intelligent Design Sort

1

Substack [?]